DEPARTMENT: MECHANICAL ENGINEERING

COURSE #: EML 3002, 2 credits

http://www.eng.famu.fsu.edu/~dommelen/courses/eml3002

COURSE TITLE: ME Tools

TYPE COURSE: Core

TERMS OFFERED: Fall/Spring

CATALOG DESCRIPTION: This course is an introduction to thermal-fluid engineering necessary to understand the principles of operation of the engine built and modeled in the laboratory course.

PREREQUISITES: MAC 2311 Calculus with Analytic Geometry; PHY 2048C General Phys A.

COREQUISITE: EML 3002L Mechanical Engineering Tools Laboratory

AREA COORDINATOR: Dr. Juan Ordonez

RESPONSIBLE FACULTY: Dr. Leon van Dommelen

INSTRUCTOR OF RECORD: Dr. Leon van Dommelen

CEB A, 242

(850) 410-6324

dommelen@eng.famu.fsu.edu

Office: http://www.eng.famu.fsu.edu/~dommelen/contact)

DATE OF PREPARATION: 1/26/2015

CLASS SCHEDULE:

Class:

Two times weekly for 1 hr. and 15 min.

Help sessions:

Two times weekly for 2:45 hours

Two times weekly for 1 hour

TEXTBOOKS/REQUIRED MATERIAL:

Fundamentals of Engineering Thermodynamics by Richard E. Sonntag, Claus Borgnakke, & Gordon J. Van Wylen. Sixth Edition, John Wiley & Sons, Inc. (2002) ISBN 0-471-15232-3.

References, Additional Resources: See web page.

SCIENCE/DESIGN (%): 95% / 5%

CONTRIBUTION TO MEETING THE PROFESSIONAL COMPONENT:
95% engineering science

5% engineering design

COURSE TOPICS:

The topics to be covered includes (not necessarily in the order shown)

1. Basic concepts of Thermodynamics – thermodynamic systems, classification, state, process, cycle, temperature scales, pressure.

2. Properties of a pure substance – use of tables and property diagrams.

3. Ideal gas, compressibility factor.

4. Work and an introduction to heat transfer.

5. First law (energy analysis) and mass conservation for closed and open systems.

6. The second law of thermodynamics, efficiency.

7. Carnot, Stirling, and other cycles - Pv representation, computation of energy interactions (work and heat) and cycle efficiency.

ASSESSMENT TOOLS:

1. Twice weekly Homework problems (15%)

2. Three exams (20%)

3. Final (25%)

COURSE OBJECTIVES* [linked to Student Outcomes]

(Numbers shown in brackets refer to department Student Outcomes – Please ask Dr. Hollis to check these numbers) http://www.eng.famu.fsu.edu/me/about_us/accred-info.html

1. Introduce basic concepts and terminology of thermo-fluid systems [1ab]

2. Be able to use the first and second law of thermodynamics in basic process and cycle computations. [1ab, 5a]

3. Perform thermodynamic computations on the Stirling and selected other cycles. [1ab, 5a]

4. Identify and analyze the principles of operation of the Stirling engine built in the companion lab course. [1ab]

COURSE OUTCOMES* [Course Objective]

*(Numbers shown in brackets are links to Course Objectives above)

By the end of the semester, students should be able to:

1. Compute hydrostatic pressure differences [1].

2. Relate pressure to force and work [1].

3. Use thermodynamic property tables [1,2].

4. Perform simple graphical analysis of the phase that a substance is in [1].

5. Compute work performed by a substance during various processes [1,2,3,4].

6. Apply the first law of thermodynamics to control masses and steady state control volumes [1, 2, 3, 4].

7. Apply the second law of thermodynamics to control masses and steady state control volumes [1, 2, 3, 4].

8. Plot basic thermodynamic processes and cycles in Pv, Tv, and Ts plots [1,2,3,4].

9. Identify violations of the Clausius and Kelvin-Planck forms of the second law [1,4].

10. Perform thermodynamic calculations on the Stirling, Otto, Diesel, and Carnot cycles. This includes the work, heat transfer, and change in state properties for each process, as well as for the full cycle [1, 2, 3, 4].

11. Compute efficiencies and second law limitations for the above cycles [1, 2].

12. Identify thermodynamic opportunities in the design of devices implementing those cycles [4].